The education ministry plans to conduct a probe of school operator Doshisha over a fatal boat accident that occurred last month during a study trip of a high school run by the organization, informed sources said Sunday.
On March 16, two vessels carrying three crew members and 18 second-year students from the Doshisha International Senior High School in Kyoto Prefecture capsized off the Henoko district in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, leaving a student and the captain of one of the boats dead and 14 others injured.
The boat ride was meant for viewing ongoing land reclamation work in Henoko for the planned transfer of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to the coastal district from its current site in Ginowan, another city in Okinawa. The base relocation within Okinawa has drawn criticisms in the prefecture and the capsized boats had been used by a local civic group as protest vessels.
AloJapan.com